Cable connector assembly having wire management members with low profile

Abstract

A cable connector assembly ( 100 ) includes two rows of conductive terminals ( 2 ) held in an insulative housing ( 1 ), a plurality of wires ( 60 ) electrically connecting with the corresponding conductive terminals, and upper and lower spacers ( 41, 42 ) behind the insulative housing to arrange the wires in order. A plurality of first partitions ( 411 ) protrude upwards from top surface of the upper spacer to form a plurality of first slots ( 410 ) for receiving a group of the wires, and a plurality of second partitions ( 421 ) protrude downwards from bottom surface of the lower spacer to form a plurality of second slots ( 420 ) for receiving another group of the wires.

1. A cable connector assembly comprising:
 an insulative housing defining a mating port exposed to an exterior in a front-to-back direction; 
 a printed circuit board located behind the housing and defining opposite first and second surfaces and opposite front and rear regions thereof; 
 a plurality of wires each including an inner conductor surrounded by an insulator; the inner conductors being soldered upon the rear regions on the first and second surfaces of the printed circuit board; 
 a wire management member located behind the printed circuit board and defining first and second parts back to back stacked with each other in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction; and each of said first and second parts defining a plurality of slots extending therethrough in said front-to-back direction under condition that in each of said first and second parts, each of said slots is outwardly open to an exterior in the vertical direction away from the other so as to allow the insulator of the corresponding wire to be assembled thereinto in the vertical direction rather than a back-to-front direction opposite to said front-to-back direction; wherein a rear edge of the printed circuit board confronts a front face of the wire management member in said front-to-back direction, and a front end of the insulator of each wire terminates before reaching said rear edge. 
 
   
   
     2. The cable connector assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein a depth of the slots of the first part is offset from the first surface of the printed circuit board, and a depth of the slots of the second part is offset from the second surface of the printed circuit board so as to forgive diameter difference between the insulator and the inner conductor. 
   
   
     3. The cable connector assembly as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein a middle level of said printed circuit board is coplanar with an interface between the first part and the second part where said first part and said second part are back to back assembled to each other.